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1  Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
    that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2  ^{1 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew} as when fire kindles brushwood
    and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
    and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3  When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
    you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4  From of old no one has heard
    or perceived by the ear,
no eye has seen a God besides you,
    who acts for those who wait for him.
5  You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
    those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
    in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved? ^{2 64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved}
6  We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7  There is no one who calls upon your name,
    who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
    and have made us melt in ^{3 64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into} the hand of our iniquities.

8  But now, O LORD, you are our Father;
    we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    we are all the work of your hand.
9  Be not so terribly angry, O LORD,
    and remember not iniquity forever.
    Behold, please look, we are all your people.
10  Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
    Zion has become a wilderness,
    Jerusalem a desolation.
11  Our holy and beautiful ^{4 64:11 Or holy and glorious} house,
    where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12  Will you restrain yourself at these things, O LORD?
    Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?